单词 | viperfish |
释义 | viperfish in British English (ˈvaɪpərˌfɪʃ) noun a predatory deep-sea fish of the family Chauliodontiae, with long, sharp, needle-shaped teeth viperfish in American English (ˈvaipərˌfɪʃ) nounWord forms: plural esp collectively -fish or esp referring to two or more kinds or species -fishes any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Chauliodontidae, having a large mouth and fanglike teeth, some species having light-emitting organs on their bodies Word origin [1890–95; viper + fish]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, masochism, neoclassicism, phoneme, pogey |
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